Monthly Archives: July 2004

Poker

Weekly game results: July 29

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Another down week. I say again, I don’t even know why I play. 

    This week  Cumulative
CR    +$0.05     +$2.10
EM    +$1.00     +$7.40
ER    -$3.15     +$0.75
JB    +$2.00     -$3.30
JC    +$2.00    +$10.95
Me    -$1.90    -$10.85

JB started off losing money steadily until a run of good hands put him into the black: a flopped boat, a rivered boat, a flopped straight (I had pocket kings), and more.

JC had his fourth consecutive positive session. He won one hand against CR when he riverred his boat: CR had made his boat on the turn with king-rag and check-raised on JC, JC called and got an ace on the river, which made his AQ good for aces full of rags. Sucks for CR, but then again, king-rag is a shitty hand to play.

EM continued her steady play, though she tended to get lucky with her straight draws completing on the turn or river.

Useful Stuff

Eating on the cheap

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Restaurant.com has an eBay Store where they offer gift certificates for restaurants all over the country. You’d be surprised at what you can find there. Tonight we went to an excellent Armenian restaurant in Hollywood (Carousel, Hollywood and Normandie) and saved $19. Good God, I’m stuffed.

Basically you find a GC you want, buy it at a great discount, print it out, and take it to the restaurant. They have dollar value certificates, and percentage certificates (e.g., 50% off your entire bill). Be sure to read the fine print, though. There are a couple restrictions that you’ll want to be aware of before fronting the cash. The gift certificate we used required a party of four or more, which was fine with us, since we wanted to go there anyway.

General

Car Crash

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Urban Legends Reference Pages: Crash Landing:

It’s a chilling scene: a video clip shows a vehicle as it speeds through an intersection and runs broadside into another car; a pedestrian crossing the street breaks into a run to run to get out of the way of the out-of-control vehicles, but the struck car rolls on top of him.

Jesus H. Christ.

Two things to note: the driver of the Cruiser ran a red light, and the pedestrian was also crossing against the light. Presumably the driver and the ped were trying to save a few seconds. Stupid, stupid. I guess some people value 30 seconds more than they value the potential loss of hours, their vehicle, or their lives.

Of course, it could be that Ms. Cruiser was chatting on her mobile and just didn’t realize the light was red. In this case, the trade-off is between saving time (by not waiting to make/take a call) or reducing the “boredom” of driving and the potential loss of hours, their vehicle, or their lives.

I hope the driver of the Cruiser loses both her legs.

Cars

New M5

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According to Top Gear:

BMW’s fourth-generation M5 will feature a 5.0-litre V10 engine producing 507bhp and 383lb ft when it arrives in Britain next spring – making it the most powerful road-going vehicle the company has ever produced.

Woah.

While this car isn’t as ugly as all the other Bangled models, it has a distinctly Japanese look to it. What in the world?!